56 THE WAK IN THE SOUDAN.

All the country is in a state of rebellion.

Impossible to communicate with Gordon.

Berber seriously threatened.

Every one leaving for Cairo.

Absolute obscurity veils the fate of Khartoum.

Suddenly Sir Evelyn Baring is summoned to London.

Note.—It may cause a smile—especially to those given to moral reflections—to know that while the seething cauldron of Egypt and the Soudan was well nigh bursting with antagonistic forces, the papers in England were quietly informing the world that:—the Duchess of Edinburgh had been safely delivered ; primroses were worn on the anniversary of Lord Beaconsfield’s death; the London Corporation deprecated the Municipality-bill; the Bell public-house, Old Bailey, took fire ; Mr. Farmer, a trades man, swallowed ammonia for cough-mixture; excavations had been made at San; the lot of a Russian Student was not a happy one; and so on.